Learn the story of how one woman used children’s books to help heal a generation of Germany’s children after WWII Jella Lepman and Her Library of Dreams.
Browsing: Celebrating Diversity
Meet Lorena Ramírez, an Indigenous Rarámuri athlete from Mexico known for winning ultramarathons in her traditional skirts and rubber sandals, in Daughter of the Light-Footed People.
Learn about the first woman student at MIT—a pioneering environmental chemist — in The Girl Who Tested the Waters: Ellen Swallow, Environmental Scientist, by Patricia Daniele and Junyi Wu.
A girl is pulled into a mysterious treasure hunt at her new boarding school in A Study in Secrets, the first book in a new series by Debbi Michiko Florence.
Learn the about the women who blazed a path forward for everyone The ABCs of Women’s History, by Rio Cortez and Lauren Semmer.
Learn the story of the first American woman to fly to space in I am Sally Ride, the 35th hero in the Ordinary People Change the World series by Brad Meltzer and Christopher Eliopoulos.
Learn the story of a Native-led movement that saw the successful removal of four dams in I Love Salmon and Lampreys: A Native Story of Resilience, by Brook M. Thompson and Anastasia Khmelevska.
Learn how a small Seder dinner on the campaign trail inspired a White House tradition in Next Year in the White House: Barack Obama’s First Presidential Seder, by Richard Michelson and E.B. Lewis.
A Miami girl is forced to move in with her aunt in Wyoming following her mother’s death in The Trouble with Sunshine, by Yamile Saied Méndez.
The Six —Young Readers Edition: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts, by Loren Grush and Rebecca Stefoff, explores America’s first women in space.